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Donate to save wild horses with the law on their side!

We are grateful our sucessful legal actions have stopped roundups and saved thousands of lives in the Pine Nut and Fort McDemitt areas. Protect Mustangs is creating a legal team to continue the fight for wild horse freedom in the courts. We almost didn’t find lawyers in time to help save the Pine Nut herd. We need to hire a staff lawyer

The team at Protect Mustangs feels legal action is a very important area of focus with a huge impact to save many lives.

Did you know that Academy Award-winner Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves), RIP, joined our Fort McDermitt lawsuit in 2013 to help stop two years of horrible roundups that were sending wild horses to slaughter?

Michael Blake wins Oscar for writing Dances with WolvesThis is what Michael Blake wrote on August 21, 2013:

I, Michael Lennox Blake, declare and state as follows:

1. I am an author as well as a screenwriter. I have written several books and screenplays including Dances with Wolves, which was released to international acclaim in 1990. In 1991, I won every major award for my screenplay for Dances with Wolves, including an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Writer’s Guild Award, and the Silver Spur. I have also received public service awards including the Eleanor Roosevelt Award and the Americanism Award, in addition to many other awards during my life.

2. I reside in Sonoita, Arizona. I am a member of Protect Mustangs, and also am on the Advisory Board for Protect Mustangs. In a professional capacity I am an author and screenwriter. I support the work that Protect Mustangs does to protect wild horses and advocate for effective wild horse conservation on public lands.

3. I have visited Nevada for decades to see the wild horses, study them, and be inspired by them for my work. I have explored the lands of Nevada where the wild horses roam in freedom for inspiration and research for my work. I intend to return to these areas so I may continue to be inspired and do research for my work.

4. In 1992, I helped commission the first comprehensive aerial census of wild horses in Nevada. In almost every herd area, the horses were far less numerous than the BLM estimated. The final count in our survey was 8,324.

5. Protect Mustangs’ members are interested in wild horses, and I support their work to protect wild horses’ freedom and safety from cruel and harmful practices including but not limited to illegal roundups. Their mission is to educate the public about indigenous wild horses, protect and research American wild horses on the range, and help those who have lost their freedom. Protect Mustangs works to educate the public about the decisions and activities of the government that impact wild horses, and find solutions for wild horse conservation that does not include roundups and auctioning off wild horses for slaughter. Members of the public and horse advocates across the United States are interested in and support Protect Mustangs’ work to protect wild horses due to their recreational, scientific, spiritual, ecological, cultural, artistic, historical, iconic, and aesthetic values.

6. I wrote in my book Twelve the King:

“But he and hundreds of thousand like him are gone now from this beautiful land, and for that reason alone I could not stop as I traveled over four hundred miles of Nevada roads. Something evil is still afoot in this land, and it has left its imprint everywhere. In all those miles of open, free country, the mark of evil is present in what is absent. The wild horses are missing from the land.”

7. I have written extensively about the American West and find inspiration seeing and studying wild horses. If these unbranded, wild horses are rounded up and removed by the USDA Forest Service and/or the BLM on tribal land, or elsewhere by the Forest Service and/or the BLM, I will be harmed because I will no longer have the ability to study them or be inspired for my books, stories and other works.

8. Wild horses and their connection with the land in the American West inspire me to write. I have plans to spend time in the future using and enjoying these lands and studying free-roaming wild horses on public lands in the Owyhee HMAs and where the wild horses roam in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, as well as on tribal lands. The proposed gather on USDA Forest Service and tribal lands will forever remove wild and free-roaming horses that I rely upon in my professional and personal capabilities.

9. I derive significant satisfaction and happiness from the existence of native wild, free- roaming horses. Ensuring the continued existence and distribution of wildlife including wild horses in the West is of the utmost importance to me and has directly influenced my life a great deal. The West is far different than the East because the West still has wildlife—including wild horses that inspire me to write fiction and non-fiction.

10. If the Fort McDermitt Horse Gather proceeds as planned, it will prevent me and other members of Protect Mustangs from recreating, enjoying, studying, being inspired from, and writing about the wild horses in the area in the future. I am very unlikely to continue deriving benefit and inspiration concerning the wild horses in an area where they have been removed and herd numbers drastically reduced as is proposed by the Fort McDermitt Horse Gather and the 2013 Agreement between the Forest Service and Fort McDermitt Tribal Council. Our members share these views as well.

11. I have been studying and gaining inspiration from seeing wild horses in Nevada throughout my life. I have certain plans to continue visiting these wild areas of Nevada authorized for roundup, including the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, throughout my lifetime. For the aforementioned reasons I would be directly harmed should the unbranded, wild horses at issue in the Fort McDermitt Horse Gather be removed and the horses rounded up and be allowed to go to holding, auction, sale, or slaughter.

[End of Michael Lennox Blake’s declaration]

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5 thoughts on “Donate to save wild horses with the law on their side!”

I loved Dances with Wolves! Anyone who has had the experience of being with the natural wildlife can understand the urgent need to not only respect it, but protect it. Thank you for your very important contribution in this very urgent matter!

Please stop abusing our Wild Horses.They do not deserved to be rounded up, experimented on, slaughter, or giving Pesticides such as PZP, SpayVac and Gonacon in hopes of stopping reproducing more Wild Horses.Please what did the Wild Horses do to be treated wrongly?We have use them for transportation before cars, we have use the for plowing before tractors,etc.I know they deserve to be free to roam always.Please leave them alone.

It is essential that Protect Mustangs employ an attorney to be its one (and only) paid staff-member. The wild horses and burros need a legal expert who is dedicated solely to defending them from the relentless attacks of their enemies — with no other cases and clients vying for attention. Volunteer-attorneys are great; but everyone needs to make a living. There is much work to be done. Time is of the essence.

There is a finite limit to what advocates without legal training can do. There are procedural problems and specific legal requirements to navigate. Protect Mustangs needs legal backing to accomplish what must be done.

After the amount of horses BLM have already rounded up spayed and castrated why the hell would they need More sterilization ! The only thing this Will amount to is the complete demise of the mustang in the wild . There were 2 000 000 mustang not so long ago now there are less then 30 000 left in the wild 58 000 in horrible BLM holing pens with NO shelter , shade or vet care ! So where are the other 1.7 million mustang Gone ! Hmmmm try Mexico and Canada slaughter house and count the ones that have died from the round up’s and in birth and from infection after being brutally castrated. ! BLM and the ranchers have 1 goal and that’s to eradicate them from the wild so their cattle may run and mining may expand . BLM have been operating way above the law now for many years and using tax payers money to cause this atrocity ! No PZP no more round ups no more slaughter No more human interference , just leave them the hell alone ! You wouldn’t even have America if not for the horse who fought your wars and built your country ! Time for some way over due pay back for all they have done !